A supermassive black hole (SMBH or sometimes SBH) is the largest type of black hole, with its mass being on the order of hundreds of thousands, or millions...

"Supermassive Black Hole" is a song by English rock band Muse. Written by Muse lead singer and principal songwriter Matt Bellamy, it was released as the...

a supermassive black hole can be shredded into streamers that shine very brightly before being "swallowed." If other stars are orbiting a black hole, their...

abbreviated as Sgr A* (/ˈsædʒ ˈeɪ stɑːr/ SADGE-AY-star), is the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center of the Milky Way. Viewed from Earth, it...

black holes so far discovered (and probable candidates), measured in units of solar masses (M☉), approximately 2×1030 kilograms. A supermassive black...

It has an active supermassive black hole at its core, which forms the primary component of an active galactic nucleus. The black hole was imaged using...

black hole ever found, estimated at 66 billion solar masses) 3C 371 4C +37.11 (this radio galaxy is believed to have binary supermassive black holes) AP...

objects the size of a supermassive black hole's event horizon. The project's observational targets include the two black holes with the largest angular...

and binary supermassive black holes, believed to be a result of galactic mergers. For many years, proving the existence of binary black holes was made difficult...

others have proposed that these supermassive black holes could spawn supermassive white holes. Like black holes, white holes have properties such as mass...

This category of black hole seeds was originally proposed theoretically to alleviate the challenge in building supermassive black holes already at redshift...

quadruple platinum in the UK and platinum in the US. The singles "Supermassive Black Hole" and "Knights of Cydonia" were both UK top-10 hits, while "Starlight"...

minimum scale factor. Or, the Big Bang was a supermassive white hole that was the result of a supermassive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in our parent...

interiors of black holes. A small number of works also portray black holes as being sentient. Besides stellar-mass black holes, supermassive and especially...

of globular clusters) and supermassive black holes in the center of the Milky Way and other galaxies. Stellar black holes in close binary systems are...

(Supermassive black holes up to 21 billion (2.1 × 1010) M☉ have been detected, such as NGC 4889.) Unlike stellar mass black holes, supermassive black holes...

rotational axis of the galaxy. Its central massive object is a supermassive black hole of about 4 million solar masses, which is called Sagittarius A*...

quasar and a type 2 Seyfert galaxy, which is powered by a central supermassive black hole. The galaxy has an uncertain morphology. Based on the "total" aperture...

higher than stellar black holes but lower than the hundred thousand to more than one billion (105–109) solar mass supermassive black holes. Several IMBH candidate...

also known as S0–2, is a star in the star cluster close to the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), orbiting it with a period of 16.0518 years...

behavior of black holes. Although they have not been observed, they are considered to be a possible progenitor of supermassive black holes. A quasi-star...

which are produced by the rapid accretion of matter by a central supermassive black hole, changing gravitational energy to light energy that can be visible...

From a Black Hole". Science Alert. Williams, R. K. (1995). "Extracting X rays, Ύ rays, and relativistic e−e+ pairs from supermassive Kerr black holes using...

radius of 10 megaparsecs of the Milky Way. Its large bulge, central supermassive black hole, and dust lane all attract the attention of professional astronomers...

abbreviated QSO. The emission from an AGN is powered by accretion onto a supermassive black hole with a mass ranging from millions to tens of billions of solar...

and exoplanetologists showed that there is a safe zone around a supermassive black hole that could harbor thousands of blanets in orbit around it. The...

of black hole Stellar black hole, a black hole formed by a collapsed star Intermediate-mass black hole, a class of black hole Supermassive black hole, a...

Ghez and Genzel for their discovery of a supermassive compact object, now generally recognized to be a black hole, in the Milky Way's Galactic Center. Ghez...

Physics present evidence for the hypothesis that Sagittarius A* is a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy 2002 — Physicists at The...

accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) already existed at about 470 million years after the Big Bang. The detection of early black holes as they transition...